Food & Wine editor in chief Dana Cowin announced the Best New Chefs beginning at 7 a.m. PST by posting selfies with each of them on her Instagram feed (here's her selfie with Taymor).

The other Best New Chefs are Justin Yu from Oxheart in Houston; Cara Stadler from Tao Yuan in Brunswick, ME; Greg Denton from Ox in Portland, OR; Matthew Accarrino from SPQR in San Francisco; Paul Qui from Qui in Austin; Eli Kulp from Fork in Philadelphia; Dave Beran from Next in Chicago; Matt McCallister from FT33 in Dallas; and Walker Stern and Joe Ogrodnek from Dover in Brooklyn.

The Best New Chef title can do wonders for a young chef's career, as evidenced by Ricardo Zarate, who held the honor in 2011, and Roy Choi, who was a Best New Chef in 2010.